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  1. 0:00Poor people. What can we do with them?
  2. 0:02I've got an idea.
  3. 0:08Today, we're playing Diplomacy is not an
  4. 0:09option. It's a game based on three
  5. 0:11simple premises. You have money, and no
  6. 0:13matter what they tell you, you do not
  7. 0:15have to share it with the local heroin
  8. 0:17addicts. In fact, if they so much as
  9. 0:18look in your general direction, it is
  10. 0:20perfectly acceptable to flatten them
  11. 0:22with a trevete. Our goal is to expand
  12. 0:24our empire and survive 100 days. But
  13. 0:26with each passing day, our drugaddled
  14. 0:28neighbors become increasingly violent
  15. 0:30and deranged. Can we leverage the
  16. 0:32military-industrial complex to subjugate
  17. 0:34the poor, or will they destroy society
  18. 0:36and cannibalize us? There's only one way
  19. 0:38to find out. But first, a word from our
  20. 0:40sponsor.
  21. 1:13Jesus Christ. Yeah, I uh I have one.
  22. 1:16I have a question for God.
  23. 1:19Why? [screaming]
  24. 1:22Okay. No, for real.
  25. 1:58the video. Now, I'm not going to lie.
  26. 2:00I've attempted this challenge several
  27. 2:02times before, and each time it ended
  28. 2:04something like this. Man, [ __ ] this
  29. 2:06game. [ __ ] piece of [ __ ] But I've
  30. 2:09learned from my mistakes, and I will no
  31. 2:10longer fall victim to esoteric game
  32. 2:12mechanics such as starvation. So, let's
  33. 2:15begin. We choose the Labyrinth of Pain.
  34. 2:17This map is known for having plenty of
  35. 2:18rock formations that will annoy the
  36. 2:20everliving [ __ ] out of me whenever I try
  37. 2:22to build literally anything, but they
  38. 2:24also create choke points which allow my
  39. 2:26trebushets to do this.
  40. 2:34[clears throat] As I was saying, day
  41. 2:36one, we load in with a lovely castle and
  42. 2:38a few units of archers. We are also
  43. 2:39greeted by a man with a surprising lack
  44. 2:41of eyeballs who informs us that we are
  45. 2:44going to die. But we should take some
  46. 2:45solace in the fact that we can take
  47. 2:47thousands of illiterate peasants with us
  48. 2:49by putting up a good fight. I like this
  49. 2:51guy. We did some scouting to find the
  50. 2:52south is almost entirely protected by
  51. 2:54rock formations with the west being
  52. 2:56forested and the east being mostly
  53. 2:58plains which will make it good for
  54. 2:59building. Now the economy of this game
  55. 3:01is very simple. There are six resources:
  56. 3:03wood, stone, iron, food, population, and
  57. 3:06most importantly, gold. By building
  58. 3:08workshops such as lumberm mills, our
  59. 3:09loyal servants will chop down trees,
  60. 3:12process them into planks, and then carry
  61. 3:13them to a stockpile. Honestly, it
  62. 3:15reminds me of Stronghold Crusader and my
  63. 3:17countless memories of the caiff
  64. 3:19repeatedly sodomizing me in the desert.
  65. 3:21And that makes me smile. PATHETIC DOG.
  66. 3:24YOU ARE LOSING US THIS WAR.
  67. 3:26NOW, there's nothing quite like slowly
  68. 3:27draining the resources from your
  69. 3:29surroundings like some kind of parasite.
  70. 3:31But everything is finite, which means
  71. 3:32we're going to have to expand outward
  72. 3:34and possibly relocate the native
  73. 3:36population. And by relocate, I mean
  74. 3:38we'll be taking them from their current
  75. 3:40position to a mass grave. I split my
  76. 3:42forces up and did some exploring to find
  77. 3:44plenty of shanty towns where the
  78. 3:46peasants like to congregate and compete
  79. 3:48to see who can smoke the most PCP. We
  80. 3:50need this land for building houses. So,
  81. 3:51I spent the next couple of days using a
  82. 3:53catapult to negotiate the terms of their
  83. 3:55surrender. Following this, we secured
  84. 3:58some stone, built a residential wing,
  85. 3:59and rushed an upgrade to our castle,
  86. 4:01which provides us access to new units
  87. 4:03and more resilient defenses. But before
  88. 4:05we could build either, I received a
  89. 4:07notification that my aggressive
  90. 4:08expansionism had angered a group of
  91. 4:10locals and a peasant mob was currently
  92. 4:12on route to kill me. Now, as much as I'd
  93. 4:14like to become acquainted with the
  94. 4:15feeling of having a rake lodged in my
  95. 4:17skull, I'd actually rather be alive. So,
  96. 4:20I decided to build a wooden tower and
  97. 4:21fill it with archers. Not long after,
  98. 4:23the peasants were upon us. They filtered
  99. 4:25out of the forest like feral beasts and
  100. 4:27began attacking our guard tower. We
  101. 4:29responded by launching rocks the size of
  102. 4:31microwaves directly at their heads. In
  103. 4:33fact, it's around this time a critical
  104. 4:35flaw of the peasant brain is
  105. 4:36illuminated. That is, their undying and
  106. 4:38rabid hatred for any form of
  107. 4:40architecture. Their building blood lust
  108. 4:42is so severe that they would rather
  109. 4:43spend the final moments of their life
  110. 4:45slamming their face against a wooden
  111. 4:47tower rather than walking an additional
  112. 4:4910 ft and destroying a nearby catapult
  113. 4:51which is currently pulverizing them. And
  114. 4:53that, my friends, is what makes them
  115. 4:55peasants and us kings. With the first
  116. 4:57wave now defeated, we expanded our
  117. 4:59stockpiles, built some fisheries, and
  118. 5:01constructed a city fountain. Wet. This
  119. 5:03building provides a buff to nearby
  120. 5:05houses, and if you achieve anything less
  121. 5:07than 100% coverage with it, I will
  122. 5:09personally kill you. I continued my war
  123. 5:11on poverty by demolishing several
  124. 5:13homeless camps to the south. But my
  125. 5:15progress was stifled when I encountered
  126. 5:16what the LGBT community would refer to
  127. 5:19as a bear. And much like a burly
  128. 5:21homosexual man, he wanted to pound my
  129. 5:23ass. Clearly, the peasants are evolving.
  130. 5:26And this is a problem that can only be
  131. 5:27solved with violence. In order to
  132. 5:29counteract the raw sexual energy
  133. 5:31radiating from these homeless freaks, I
  134. 5:33decided to expand our military with some
  135. 5:35axemen and healers. After repelling a
  136. 5:37few more enemy raids, we were on day 12,
  137. 5:39and the kingdom was expanding nicely. We
  138. 5:41have a hospital, a tavern, and several
  139. 5:43walls that I just forgot to finish.
  140. 5:45Actually, this is a learning opportunity
  141. 5:48because whenever you play a game like
  142. 5:49this, you will inevitably manifest
  143. 5:51several stages of grief, just in the
  144. 5:53wrong order. It all starts with denial.
  145. 5:55I'm surrounded by murderous psychopaths,
  146. 5:57but they wouldn't hurt me. Then
  147. 5:58bargaining. Okay, maybe I should build
  148. 6:00some walls, but really I'm going to
  149. 6:02expand here eventually, so the wall
  150. 6:04should go there. But if it goes there,
  151. 6:06it may as well go here, which is
  152. 6:07basically all the way over there. This
  153. 6:09mentally ill series of rationalizations
  154. 6:11ultimately results in you deciding that
  155. 6:13the only acceptable defensive formation
  156. 6:15looks something like this. Naturally,
  157. 6:18you never build these walls because your
  158. 6:20profound disconnect with reality causes
  159. 6:22you to lose the game on day 18 when you
  160. 6:24get attacked from two sides, neither of
  161. 6:26which have any protection whatsoever,
  162. 6:28which is when you finally manifest anger
  163. 6:30and quit the game. So, in short, it's
  164. 6:32time to build some goddamn walls. Here's
  165. 6:34the plan. Little walls here, here, and
  166. 6:36here. Big walls here, here, and here.
  167. 6:39Now, that's easier said than done
  168. 6:40because despite my best efforts to keep
  169. 6:42the peasants illiterate, they have
  170. 6:44somehow managed to construct their own
  171. 6:46catapults, which they are now using to
  172. 6:47temporarily and painfully invert gravity
  173. 6:50in a localized area around my archers.
  174. 6:52Truly, the arms race has begun. But
  175. 6:54luckily, we are winning because I've
  176. 6:56just produced five trebushets with a
  177. 6:58buff to their AoE. Needless to say, it
  178. 7:00has never been a worse time to be a
  179. 7:02grass-eing savage living in the ghetto.
  180. 7:04Anyway, we got to work on making some
  181. 7:06new walls, and we're going to need them
  182. 7:07because it's now day 19, and we're about
  183. 7:09to be attacked from two sides at once.
  184. 7:12The left side has most of a wall, and
  185. 7:14the right side has like a tower, I
  186. 7:16guess. So, I took four trebuchets to the
  187. 7:18right side and created a very compelling
  188. 7:20argument for not coming within 50 ft of
  189. 7:22my castle. The rest of my soldiers went
  190. 7:24to the left and tried to hold the
  191. 7:26peasants in this bottleneck here. It was
  192. 7:28difficult, but every so often, a
  193. 7:29trebushe would splash down and take out
  194. 7:31like 60 attackers, which certainly
  195. 7:33helped. The battle actually lasted over
  196. 7:3524 hours, but by day 20 it was over, and
  197. 7:38we had single-handedly reduced local
  198. 7:39unemployment by 100% by simply killing
  199. 7:42the jobless. Truly, my approval ratings
  200. 7:45are at an all-time high. By this point,
  201. 7:47our keep is now fully upgraded, and we
  202. 7:49can finally produce my favorite unit,
  203. 7:50hammer guys. I know they appear to be
  204. 7:52some kind of evolutionary transition
  205. 7:54state between a man who has legs and one
  206. 7:56who does not, but they're quite good.
  207. 7:58They're tanky, they take
  208. 7:59performance-enhancing drugs, and they're
  209. 8:01basically the ultimate life form.
  210. 8:02Personally, watching a hammer guy
  211. 8:04absolutely devastate 50 junkies at a
  212. 8:06time is fantastic, and it brings great
  213. 8:09meaning into my life. It's now day 31.
  214. 8:11Our walls are complete, thus forming our
  215. 8:13first layer of defense against the
  216. 8:15chronically unemployed. We may expand
  217. 8:17outward at some point, but right now,
  218. 8:19we're just focused on solidifying our
  219. 8:21position. Because every few days, the
  220. 8:22raids become larger, better equipped,
  221. 8:24and eventually they'll be attacking us
  222. 8:26with 10,000 units in every direction. In
  223. 8:28order to prepare for this, I did a
  224. 8:30little testing to determine the best
  225. 8:31unit for pacifying marginalized groups.
  226. 8:34And I've determined it to be this little
  227. 8:36fella. I've always known trebuchets were
  228. 8:37good, but I've just realized how good.
  229. 8:39Because by placing one in a tier three
  230. 8:41tower, we can take a unit with an
  231. 8:43already ridiculous range and increase it
  232. 8:45another 35%, thus allowing it to mangle
  233. 8:48confused farmers from over a kilometer
  234. 8:50away. This is basically the medieval
  235. 8:52equivalent of drone striking our
  236. 8:54enemies. And I absolutely love it.
  237. 8:56Furthermore, I can manually target areas
  238. 8:58for bombardment to produce a creeping
  239. 9:00barrage. When this is happening, I can
  240. 9:02say with 100% certainty that you won't
  241. 9:04be making it from here to here without
  242. 9:06undergoing a catastrophic rearrangement
  243. 9:09of your anatomy. Given this, I believe
  244. 9:10trebushets to be the pinnacle of combat
  245. 9:12engineering. In fact, you may be
  246. 9:14familiar with the scientific phenomena
  247. 9:16where every species is slowly evolving
  248. 9:18into crabs. Well, based on this, I'd say
  249. 9:20that every crab is slowly evolving into
  250. 9:22a trebushe. Needless to say, I'm now
  251. 9:24going to be devoting 95% of my military
  252. 9:27budget towards producing hundreds of
  253. 9:29these war machines. It's now day 40 and
  254. 9:31things are going well. We've built some
  255. 9:33stables to produce cavalry units and a
  256. 9:35university to allow us to research
  257. 9:37magic. But most importantly, a whopping
  258. 9:3923% of our population is now trebushes.
  259. 9:42And I have no regrets because we're
  260. 9:43about to get hit by another wave. I was
  261. 9:45a little concerned because the past few
  262. 9:47attacks have spawned in two armies, but
  263. 9:49the game is telling me there's only one
  264. 9:50coming this time. And that's because
  265. 9:52this one army is [ __ ] massive. They
  266. 9:54flooded in from the west thousands upon
  267. 9:56thousands of pitchfork wielding
  268. 9:58delinquents. Even with 40 trebushets
  269. 10:01working around the clock, it took us 3
  270. 10:03days of non-stop violence to finally
  271. 10:06finish the wave. After the first day, I
  272. 10:08just had to ignore it and start doing
  273. 10:09other things. But if this is how the
  274. 10:11rest of the waves scale, we may be in
  275. 10:13some trouble. Luckily, I have a trick up
  276. 10:15my sleeve. You may have noticed whenever
  277. 10:16we demolish the homeless shelters, they
  278. 10:18drop these funny little crystals. You're
  279. 10:21probably thinking, hm, they look
  280. 10:22important. And you would be right,
  281. 10:24because these are the crystallized souls
  282. 10:26that we have harvested from the vagrants
  283. 10:28who used to live in this little tent
  284. 10:29village. I didn't want to tell you about
  285. 10:31this earlier because it kind of makes me
  286. 10:33seem like a bad guy. But harnessing the
  287. 10:35souls of the poor is tremendously
  288. 10:37helpful because it allows us to use
  289. 10:38spells. This one summons in death
  290. 10:40knights. This is an orbital ion beam.
  291. 10:43And by building a giant monument to a
  292. 10:45certain death god, we can use this one.
  293. 10:47It summons a meteor that kills
  294. 10:48everything. For the past 40 days, I've
  295. 10:50been carefully collecting souls and
  296. 10:52saving them. I know you want to judge me
  297. 10:54for this, but reaping the souls of the
  298. 10:56poor to wield occult powers is and
  299. 10:58always has been the foundation of every
  300. 11:00world government. I mean, think about
  301. 11:02it. It's been how many thousand years
  302. 11:04and we still haven't solved
  303. 11:05homelessness. It's a goddamn soul farm
  304. 11:07and no one's asking questions. Anyway,
  305. 11:09I'm going to stop talking about this
  306. 11:11before a massage agent kicks down my
  307. 11:13door and puts a grenade in my mouth. So,
  308. 11:15my plan is to offset the increasing
  309. 11:17difficulty with a proportional amount of
  310. 11:19meteorological phenomena. I don't know
  311. 11:21how long our sole supplies will last,
  312. 11:23but for the time being, we should be
  313. 11:24okay. Apart from practicing the dark
  314. 11:26arts, we've also made some exciting
  315. 11:28agricultural advancements. On day one,
  316. 11:31we were surrounded by a beautiful, lush
  317. 11:33forest. That same forest is now neatly
  318. 11:35stacked in my stockpiles. So, it's time
  319. 11:37to fix that. I know earlier I said we
  320. 11:39had finite resources, but I am a
  321. 11:42bastard, and I lied. Because we are
  322. 11:43about to spit in the face of
  323. 11:45thermodynamics by creating infinite
  324. 11:47trees. All we have to do is place a few
  325. 11:49woodsman huts and they'll run around
  326. 11:51planting trees which we can then chop
  327. 11:53down. By striking the right balance of
  328. 11:54lumberjacks to woodsmen, we will have a
  329. 11:56constant and indefinite supply of wood.
  330. 11:58We can then take this one step further
  331. 12:00by totally ruining the world economy.
  332. 12:03Several weeks ago, I built a
  333. 12:04marketplace. We can use it to exchange
  334. 12:06resources with other kingdoms, and this
  335. 12:08little zeppelin will fly off and
  336. 12:10complete the trade. It's very cute, but
  337. 12:11also very powerful. Because by forcing
  338. 12:14these deals to go through, my infinite
  339. 12:16wood can become infinite food, stone,
  340. 12:18iron, and gold. And thankfully so,
  341. 12:20because by day 45, most of the resources
  342. 12:23in our borders have dried up. It's now
  343. 12:25day 50, and a few things about my base
  344. 12:27design have become clear. First, this
  345. 12:29wall is lovely. It's spacious and very
  346. 12:31easy to hold because all of the smelly
  347. 12:33transients become profoundly confused by
  348. 12:35this rock formation, and I can smoke
  349. 12:37them in the face as they attempt to
  350. 12:39navigate its intricacies. This wall is
  351. 12:41lonely. No one comes here, and with each
  352. 12:43passing day, I regret spending 3,000
  353. 12:45stone to build it. Finally, this wall is
  354. 12:48an absolute bastard. I don't really know
  355. 12:50why, but the game just loves hammering
  356. 12:51me over and over again in this exact
  357. 12:53location. Every wave, I bring down three
  358. 12:56meteors on these filthy little men, and
  359. 12:58still they persist. The assault on day
  360. 13:0057 really highlighted this issue because
  361. 13:03I was diverting so many trebushets to
  362. 13:05handle the corner from hell that the
  363. 13:06rest of my base was starting to falter.
  364. 13:08I've been using my soldiers to try to
  365. 13:10fill the gaps, but every time one of
  366. 13:12them dies, I experience a catatonic
  367. 13:14breakdown because I'm trying to save
  368. 13:16them for later. And watching this number
  369. 13:17go down is remarkably stressful. So
  370. 13:20clearly we need a better solution.
  371. 13:21Obviously more trebushets, but to be
  372. 13:23able to afford them, I had to expand
  373. 13:25into this area. It's worth it though
  374. 13:27because from this position, we can spawn
  375. 13:29camp the peasants as they load into the
  376. 13:31map. Is this a dirty tactic? Is it
  377. 13:33cheating? Does it possibly make me
  378. 13:35bisexual? Yes to all of the above. But
  379. 13:38I'm not going to stop because we still
  380. 13:40have 40 more days to go. Also, it's
  381. 13:42worth noting that a few of our soldiers
  382. 13:43have died in recent conflicts, and their
  383. 13:46rotting bodies are starting to stink the
  384. 13:47place up. So, I built a graveyard to get
  385. 13:49rid of them. Now, I'm going to tell you
  386. 13:51something that I wish someone told me.
  387. 13:52It might seem like placing a graveyard
  388. 13:54near the front line is a good idea
  389. 13:57because that's where all the bodies are.
  390. 13:58However, when that graveyard is
  391. 14:00inevitably destroyed by a band of insane
  392. 14:03Cromagnon men, all 200 bodies that were
  393. 14:06buried there will become zombies and
  394. 14:08they will kill you. This happened to me
  395. 14:09in a previous save and I almost cried.
  396. 14:12So, graveyards in the back. Now, I'd
  397. 14:14like to say we have really entered into
  398. 14:16something of a renaissance by day 61.
  399. 14:18Yes, we are being invaded by seven
  400. 14:20armies at once and it is terrifying. But
  401. 14:22by carefully abusing certain financial
  402. 14:24markets, we have managed to make 98
  403. 14:27trebushets which now account for 38% of
  404. 14:29our entire population. Truly, we live in
  405. 14:32a gilded age. Imagine being so clouded
  406. 14:34by jealousy that you even attempt to
  407. 14:36resist the beauty and splendor that is
  408. 14:38King Regginald's empire. I used to think
  409. 14:40these people belonged in cages, but now
  410. 14:42I weep for their lost souls, for they
  411. 14:44know not what they do. As with any
  412. 14:46Renaissance, ours was marked by several
  413. 14:48great scientific advancements. For
  414. 14:50example, we researched advanced soul
  415. 14:52stealing, which allows us to extract
  416. 14:54souls from inanimate objects, such as
  417. 14:56enemy catapults. This is very important
  418. 14:58for maintaining the soul economy. We
  419. 15:01also researched boiling oil. Now, all of
  420. 15:03our walls are capable of some basic
  421. 15:05level of self-defense by simply dumping
  422. 15:07a few gallons of scalding grease on
  423. 15:10their attackers. This might not seem
  424. 15:11like a big deal, but if you're an
  425. 15:13inattentive piece of [ __ ] like me, then
  426. 15:15this is a very big deal because there's
  427. 15:17nothing worse than your entire army
  428. 15:18being over here only for some jackass
  429. 15:21with a gardening tool to start his
  430. 15:23career in freelance demolition all the
  431. 15:25way over here. But now that same jackass
  432. 15:28has thirdderee burns on 100% of his
  433. 15:30body, and I don't feel bad at all.
  434. 15:32Finally, I tried using some horse
  435. 15:34archers because I know just how good
  436. 15:35they are in Mountain Blade. Turns out
  437. 15:37not so good in this game. I mowed
  438. 15:39through the next couple of waves without
  439. 15:41much trouble. And it may seem like we've
  440. 15:42got this in the bag, but after several
  441. 15:44failed attempts at this challenge, I've
  442. 15:46realized the difference between losing a
  443. 15:48wall and losing the game is very small.
  444. 15:51And if the peasants get past even our
  445. 15:52first layer of defense, they could
  446. 15:54destroy our farms and a starbust to
  447. 15:56death. So, we can't afford to become too
  448. 15:58complacent. By day 75, things were
  449. 16:00starting to get difficult again. Despite
  450. 16:02having over 120 trebushets firing at
  451. 16:04them, the peasants were just forcing
  452. 16:06their way in. I felt like the manager of
  453. 16:08a Best Buy on Black Friday, and it was
  454. 16:10stressing me out. There has to be at
  455. 16:12least 15,000 of them by this point, and
  456. 16:14there's only so much punishment a stone
  457. 16:16wall can take. Thankfully, I managed to
  458. 16:18pacify the crowd by calling down the
  459. 16:20entire solar system on their heads. Once
  460. 16:22the wave was over, I decided to renovate
  461. 16:24the battlefield by coating it in
  462. 16:26roadside bombs. I don't know what's in
  463. 16:27these little landmines, but whenever a
  464. 16:29peasant steps on them, they explode for
  465. 16:31200 AoE damage. For reference, a peasant
  466. 16:34has 10 hit points. So, it's safe to say
  467. 16:36that this minefield could be considered
  468. 16:38hazardous to one's health. I also
  469. 16:40started using a couple ballast for one
  470. 16:42reason and one reason alone. This tool
  471. 16:44tip says they're manned by children and
  472. 16:46child soldiers are very onbrand for me,
  473. 16:48so I simply couldn't ignore it. Apart
  474. 16:50from that, [screaming]
  475. 16:53they're all right. Day 86. Another wave
  476. 16:55of maniacal thugs is inbound. I brought
  477. 16:58the depths of my depravity to bear
  478. 16:59against my asalants, but they marched
  479. 17:01through my minefields without so much as
  480. 17:03flinching, and it terrified the poor
  481. 17:05children. Walls crumbled, towers
  482. 17:07decimated, and my poor baby boy. They
  483. 17:09killed him. Fortunately, I have 148
  484. 17:11others. But things are getting out of
  485. 17:13control. So, I decided to start doubling
  486. 17:15the walls in an effort to slow my
  487. 17:17attackers down. If we are going to make
  488. 17:19it to day 100, it's going to be by the
  489. 17:21momentum of our dead body sliding past
  490. 17:23the finish line, but that would still
  491. 17:24count. So, we fight on. It's now day 93
  492. 17:28and the second last wave is upon us. The
  493. 17:30south wall holds thanks to our spawn
  494. 17:32camping technique. The north does fairly
  495. 17:34well due to the terrain, but even with
  496. 17:36double walls, the east side gets
  497. 17:38absolutely pounded. I even had to bring
  498. 17:40the military out to prevent the peasants
  499. 17:42from pouring through the gaps and
  500. 17:43cannibalizing my farmers. It was getting
  501. 17:45pretty concerning, but a few well-placed
  502. 17:47meteors managed to quell the rebellion.
  503. 17:49Now, technically the next wave isn't
  504. 17:51until day 101. So, we could easily
  505. 17:54survive to day 100 and call the
  506. 17:56challenge complete. But personally, I
  507. 17:57think that would be pathetic and kind of
  508. 17:59cringe. So, we're going to take the
  509. 18:01attack on day 101 as our final test. And
  510. 18:03for this final test, I have studied very
  511. 18:06hard. More minefields, more military,
  512. 18:08and even triple walls. Yeah, I had to
  513. 18:11deconstruct the hospital to afford these
  514. 18:13bad boys, but there is no price too high
  515. 18:15in my kingdom. Our standing army is now
  516. 18:18300 units strong. And I've also added
  517. 18:20these [music] guys. They're basically
  518. 18:21just explosive barrels on wheels. I'm
  519. 18:23going to hide them in this little nook
  520. 18:25and deploy them into the enemy army as
  521. 18:27they come around the corner.
  522. 18:29Day 101. Within minutes, the final wave
  523. 18:32will come barreling down on us like an
  524. 18:34errant locomotive. And it is our job,
  525. 18:36nay, our moral responsibility, to throw
  526. 18:39rocks, landmines, and children at that
  527. 18:41locomotive until it comes to a grinding
  528. 18:43stop and explodes on the tracks. And
  529. 18:46look at that. Here comes the pain train
  530. 18:47speeding onto the map with three waves
  531. 18:49in our favorite corner. [music] Two
  532. 18:51waves from the south, one from the west,
  533. 18:53and two up top. I deployed my army to
  534. 18:55the top right to help alleviate the
  535. 18:56stress. Surely this won't be too bad, I
  536. 18:58thought to myself. Well, imagine my
  537. 19:00surprise when the entire population of
  538. 19:02India slowly filtered onto the map. This
  539. 19:05is only one of the seven waves currently
  540. 19:07attacking us. The peasant mob crashed
  541. 19:09against our walls like bags of raw meat
  542. 19:11being flung out of a centrifuge. But I
  543. 19:13had faith in my castle because it is a
  544. 19:15monument to hostile architecture. This
  545. 19:18is what those spiky park benches wish
  546. 19:20they could be. In the top right, my army
  547. 19:22was engaged in a razor close battle
  548. 19:24against approximately 10% of the enemy
  549. 19:26population. Meanwhile, the south was
  550. 19:28holding its ground thanks to an
  551. 19:30effective implementation of being a
  552. 19:32scumbag. However, up north, we were
  553. 19:34having less success. I managed to use
  554. 19:35one of these barrels to explode some
  555. 19:37peasants, which was nice. But then I
  556. 19:39kind of messed up the other one because
  557. 19:41it exploded too soon and set off a chain
  558. 19:43reaction that killed everyone else. An
  559. 19:45unpreventable tragedy if I ever saw one.
  560. 19:49Speaking of unfortunate situations, the
  561. 19:51West is undergoing something of an
  562. 19:53unconsensual renovation project, which
  563. 19:55is very problematic. While I was trying
  564. 19:57to sort that out, I failed to notice
  565. 19:59this number going down very fast. It
  566. 20:01represents my currently alive soldiers.
  567. 20:03I don't know what happened, but 200 of
  568. 20:05them are now dead. I tried to retreat my
  569. 20:07remaining army only to accidentally run
  570. 20:09it into an explosive barrel and kill all
  571. 20:1270 of my healers. Truly, this is our
  572. 20:14darkest hour. I'm a little worried, but
  573. 20:16I have one last secret weapon. I'm
  574. 20:18sitting on a stockpile of 400 human
  575. 20:21souls, which is enough to call in 40
  576. 20:23meteors. And that is what a sane person
  577. 20:25would probably do. But who are we
  578. 20:27kidding here?
  579. 20:29because I've spent the past 100 days
  580. 20:32gathering arcane knowledge to upgrade
  581. 20:34one of the worst spells in the game into
  582. 20:36a reality destroying cataclysmic event.
  583. 20:39It's this spell right here. Normally, it
  584. 20:41summons five death knights. Not great,
  585. 20:43not terrible, but I upgraded it. Now, 10
  586. 20:45death knights. And then I upgraded
  587. 20:47again. It now summons 30 undead warriors
  588. 20:50per cast. With a cost of two gems, we
  589. 20:52can afford to use this spell 200 times
  590. 20:55to summon a grand total of 6,000 dark
  591. 20:57knights anywhere on the map. So, you
  592. 21:00better believe I did just that. As my
  593. 21:02frame rate grinded to a halt, I snapped
  594. 21:04my head back in maniacal laughter
  595. 21:06because I knew the peasants stood no
  596. 21:08chance. The 6,000 Dark Knights made
  597. 21:10short work of pretty much everything on
  598. 21:12the west side, and they allowed me to
  599. 21:13gather more souls so I could afford a
  600. 21:15few tactically placed meteors in the top
  601. 21:17right. You could say it's all coming
  602. 21:19together. Once my frame rate had a pulse
  603. 21:21again, I surveyed the area to see the
  604. 21:23south was fine, the north pretty good,
  605. 21:26the west almost completely empty, and
  606. 21:28the top right kind of a shitow, but
  607. 21:30basically everyone's dead. Fun fact,
  608. 21:32this battle took so long to complete,
  609. 21:34some of the corpses actually reanimated
  610. 21:36as zombies and started attacking me all
  611. 21:38over again. But we killed them, too. And
  612. 21:40with that, we have finally survived 100
  613. 21:43days and completed our challenge. I want
  614. 21:45to thank this month's patrons for
  615. 21:46supporting me in my war on homelessness.
  616. 21:49And lastly, thank you for watching.
  617. 21:51Wait, don't forget to download Raid
  618. 21:52Shadow Legends using the link in the
  619. 21:54description to receive all these
  620. 21:55rewards. All right, see you later.
  621. 22:07I'm not bad as

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